Tag: Islam
Turkey’s Higher Education Council announced that it had decided to cancel a gender equality programme, which included courses to be provided in universities to promote equality between women and men, Yeni Şafak reported . The council previously decided ...
Fethullah Gulen sits in a room at his compound in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. He has lived in exile in the United States since the late 1990s. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames Gulen for last year’s ...
Not long ago women in Turkey fought to cover their hair, yet now it seems the headscarf has fallen out of favour. Seventeen years into Erdoganʹs rule, some things are floundering – including the assumption ...
A Headscarf Affair, a Women’s Affair? In Turkey, the recent parliamentary vote put an end to the headscarf ban, but not to the public controversy that has severely divided and deeply polarized Turkish society since ...
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By Gokhan Bacik Turkey has many prominent Islamic movements and religious orders that perform key social and political functions that make them nearly equal to political parties. Several key points can help us understand Turkish ...